Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

Cross References (44)

  • Revelation 2:20 (9)

    But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she mislea

  • Acts 15:29 (9)

    You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorali

  • Revelation 2:14 (8)

    But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stu

  • Genesis 9:4 (7)

    But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

  • Leviticus 3:17 (7)

    This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

  • Acts 21:25 (5)

    As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols,

  • 1 Corinthians 8:4–13 (5)

    So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God

  • 1 Corinthians 6:18 (4)

    Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9 (4)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • Leviticus 17:10–14 (4)

    If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that pers

  • 1 Corinthians 10:7–8 (4)

    Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11 (3)

    But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an i

  • Ephesians 5:3 (3)

    But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impu

  • Deuteronomy 12:16 (3)

    but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

  • 1 Corinthians 8:1 (3)

    Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • Exodus 34:15–16 (3)

    Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice

  • Deuteronomy 15:23 (3)

    But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:2 (3)

    But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  • 1 Peter 4:3 (3)

    For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr

  • Revelation 9:20 (3)

    Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did

  • Galatians 5:19 (3)

    The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (3)

    For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

  • Ezekiel 4:14 (3)

    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or ma

  • Colossians 3:5 (3)

    Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre

  • Hebrews 13:4 (3)

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult

  • 1 Samuel 14:32 (2)

    So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate me

  • Genesis 35:2 (2)

    So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselve

  • Revelation 10:2 (2)

    He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

  • Revelation 10:8 (2)

    Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the

  • Ezekiel 20:30–31 (2)

    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers

  • Exodus 20:3–5 (2)

    You shall have no other gods before Me.

  • Daniel 1:8 (2)

    But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief officia

  • Numbers 25:2 (2)

    who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

  • Deuteronomy 12:23–25 (2)

    Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

  • Exodus 20:23 (2)

    You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:14–28 (2)

    Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • 1 Timothy 4:4–5 (2)

    For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

  • 2 Corinthians 12:21 (2)

    I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea

  • 1 Corinthians 6:13 (2)

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual imm

  • Hebrews 12:16 (2)

    See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

  • Deuteronomy 14:21 (2)

    You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you m

  • Ezekiel 33:25 (2)

    Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your i

  • Psalms 106:37–39 (2)

    They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

  • Leviticus 7:23–27 (2)

    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.